About Ostraka

Ostraka is a free daily cultural investigation game, played in your browser.

How it works

Every day, a famous memory has vanished: a place, a work, a person, an event or an invention. Three short workshops restore its traces. After each trace, you can make a guess: the fewer traces you use, the finer your crest.

Found or not, you leave with the card of the day and its explanation. A game takes a few minutes.

Ostraka at a glance

• Type: daily cultural investigation
• Length: a few minutes a day
• Access: free, no sign-up; an email address is enough to save your progress
• Platform: in a browser, on computer or phone, nothing to download
• Languages: French and English

Why “Ostraka”?

In Antiquity, an ostrakon was a fragment of pottery used as a writing surface. The name Ostraka evokes these fragments that preserve traces: in the game, each workshop restores a fragment, and the fragments together piece a memory back together.

Follow the project

Ostraka keeps evolving through testing and player feedback. You can follow the project on Instagram or write to hello@playostraka.com.